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Capital Markets Conference 2021
      Speaker biographies
        In alphabetical order by first name

Alyssa Caples, partner, Cravath, Swaine &
Moore LLP

Alyssa Caples is a partner in Cravath, Swaine &
Moore LLP’s Corporate Department. She focuses
on international corporate finance. Ms. Caples
regularly represents both issuers and investment
banks in connection with high yield and investment
grade bond offerings. Representative transactions
include recent deals for: Bacardi, British American
Tobacco, Drax, INEOS, Infopro Digital, Lowell
Group and Picard. Ms. Caples received a B.A.
summa cum laude from Columbia University in
1997 and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law
School in 2000. She joined Cravath in 2000 and
became a partner in 2009.

Anna Delgado, partner, Ashurst LLP

Anna Delgado is a partner at Ashurst LLP and the
head of the Debt Capital Markets group in London.
Anna specialises in capital markets transactions
and regularly acts for issuers and underwriters on a
variety of capital markets issues.
She has extensive experience in advising on a wide
range of capital markets products, in particular,
international bond issues, exchangeable and
convertible bonds, derivative securities, hybrid
securities, liability management, medium term note
programmes, euro commercial paper (including
recently in respect of the CCFF) and certificate of
deposit programmes. Anna is also very active in
the sustainable/green finance space and has
advised on number of "first" green bonds in the
market.

Anna Meek, Executive Director and Senior Legal
Director, Goldman Sachs

Anna is an Executive Director and Senior Legal
Director at Goldman Sachs in the EMEA IBD Legal
team. Previously she was a lawyer for the Goldman
Sachs’ independent research division based in the
New York and then most recently in London with a
focus on the EMEA and Asia Pacific research
businesses. She joined Goldman Sachs in London
12 years ago in the EMEA IBD Legal team.

Antonia Netiv, partner, NautaDutilh

Antonia Netiv is specialized in transactions
involving public companies. She regularly advises
on both ECM and DCM transactions.
Her recent representative work in 2020 includes the
EUR 96mio offering of Acomo on Euronext
Amsterdam, the 10% offering and rights issue by
Fugro on Euronext Amsterdam, the EUR 1.5bn
convertible bond of STMicroelectronics and acting
for GrubHub on ECM aspects in connection with
their merger with Takeaway.com. In 2019 Antonia
was lead counsel for Airbus on the first prospectus
approved by the AFM under the new prospectus
regulations.

Barney Reynolds, head of financial institutions,
Shearman & Sterling

Barnabas (Barney) Reynolds is a leading City-
based financial services lawyer whose Enhanced
Equivalence model for post-Brexit trade has been
adopted by the UK Government. He is a member of
the Star Chamber advising MPs on Brexit. His post-
Brexit solutions to a no deal scenario, published in
'The Art of the No Deal' (Politeia, 2017), have been
adopted by several financial institutions. He also
co-authored “Managing Euro Risk” (Politeia, 2020)
explaining how the Eurozone’s legal structure
creates systemic financial risk. Mr Reynolds led a
team drafting an entire civil and commercial regime
for Abu Dhabi’s new financial centre, ADGM, which
is the first non-Commonwealth application of the
English common law.

Caroline Phillips, partner, Slaughter and May

Caroline is a partner in Slaughter and May’s
financing team and has a broad international
practice covering banking, capital markets,
securitisation, derivatives and structured finance.
She regularly advises corporate issuers on their
high yield issuances. Caroline is listed as “highly
regarded” in IFLR 1000, 2020 for “banking” and is
ranked in Legal 500, 2019 for acquisition finance,
debt capital markets and high yield, where she is
described as “technically very gifted”. She is an
officer on the IBA’s Banking Law Committee and is
a visiting lecturer, teaching capital markets on the
Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam’s Finance
Masters course.

Carolyn Boey, Director and Associate General
Counsel, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Carolyn Boey is a director and Associate General
Counsel and co-heads the EMEA DCM IG Legal
team of Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
 Carolyn has extensive experience in a wide range
of debt capital markets products (in Reg S, Rule
144A or SEC registered format) including
regulatory capital/hybrid securities and covered
bonds, as well as liability management transactions
for a broad spectrum of financial institution and
corporate issuers in Europe, Middle East and
Africa.

Charlotte Bellamy, Senior Director, Market
Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA

Charlotte is a senior director in the Market Practice
and Regulatory Policy team of the International
Capital Market Association (ICMA), supporting the
ICMA lead manager constituency. As part of that
role, Charlotte is Secretary to the ICMA Legal &
Documentation Committee and looks at regulatory
and market developments of interest to the
Committee including EU and UK regulation and
market developments affecting documentation for
new bond issues. Charlotte is also involved in
ICMA’s work on the transition to risk-free rates and
participates in the Sterling Risk Free Rate Working
Group’s Bond Market Sub-Group and the Euro Risk
Free Rate Working Group’s Contract Robustness
Subgroup. Charlotte joined ICMA in 2013 from Allen
& Overy LLP, where she was an associate in the
International Capital Markets department, advising
issuers and underwriters on a range of debt capital
markets transactions.

David A. Califano, Assistant General Counsel,
J.P. Morgan

David Califano, Assistant General Counsel at J.P.
Morgan, is a duly qualified New York and French
lawyer. He specialises in high-yield bonds and
equity capital markets. Before joining J.P. Morgan,
he practiced in the capital markets group of Latham
& Watkins in Paris and London.

David Hopkins, Managing Director, Head of
DCM Legal, NatWest Markets

David Hopkins is a Managing Director at NatWest
Markets, where he is the Head of the Debt Capital
Markets Legal team. He has 30 years of debt capital
markets experience. His team provides legal advice
and and documentation support for NatWest
Markets’ primary market bond underwriting
business, covering all investment grade primary
issuance and debt programme work, liability
management, high yield bonds and commercial
paper, as well as structured debt, lending products
and advisory work. The team was named IFLR’s In-
House Debt Team of the Year for 2020.
David qualified as a solicitor in 1987 and spent over
eight years with Freshfields, both in London and
Hong Kong. He joined the NatWest Group in 1996.
He has been the Chair of the ICMA’s Legal &
Documentation Committee since 2014.

Dorothee Fischer-Applet, shareholder,
Greenberg Traurig and conference chair

Dorothee Fischer-Appelt is a New York and
English-qualified shareholder with experience in
international capital markets and M&A transactions.
She represents companies, financial institutions
and selling shareholders in connection with
international equity and debt capital markets
transactions, including IPOs, secondary equity
offerings, structured equity offerings, convertibles,
warrants, block trades, high yield offerings, Rule
144A debt offerings, covered bonds, exchange
offers and consent solicitations. She advises clients
from a broad range of industries, including banking
and insurance, life sciences, real estate and
industrials. She is a frequent speaker at
conferences and has lectured at King’s College,
London and the Universities of Zurich and St.
Gallen, Switzerland. She has also published
numerous articles on U.S. and EU securities
regulation.

Gary Simmons, managing director, AFME High
yield division
Gary Simmons is the Managing Director of the
AFME High Yield division, for which he leads
AFME’s efforts to lower costs and increase
efficiency in the execution of high-yield
transactions, and lobbies for the reform of
corporate insolvency laws. He also heads the
AFME Prime Services division, which monitors
business, legal and regulatory issues affecting the
prime brokerage industry, and provides advocacy
for member positions. Gary is a New York-qualified
lawyer and was previously a senior associate at
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. After an initial
period in New York, Gary spent several years in
London, gaining extensive experience in cross
border and emerging markets debt transactions,
particularly high-yield bond issuances and
leveraged loans. Gary has a Juris Doctor from
Rutgers University School of Law (with honors) and
a Bachelor of Arts (with highest honors) from
Rutgers University. Following law school, he was a
law clerk to the Honorable William H. Walls of the
United States Federal District Court, District of New
Jersey.
James McDonald, Partner, Capital Markets,
Skadden

James McDonald concentrates his work in
corporate finance transactions, focusing on
international offerings of securities, including high-
yield debt offerings. His transactional experience
includes representing issuers and underwriters on a
broad range of corporate finance transactions in
Europe and the United States. Mr. McDonald is
repeatedly recognized as a leading individual in
major legal directories such as IFLR1000 and The
Legal 500 UK, including for his work on high-yield
transactions and initial public offerings. Mr.
McDonald also is experienced in advising clients on
SEC filings and other U.S. securities law matters.

John Papanichola, partner, Slaughter and May

John has a broad corporate and corporate finance
practice, with particular experience in public and
private M&A and equity capital markets.
John was seconded to Goldman Sachs in 2004
where he focused on equity capital markets and
private equity matters.
John has been included in The Lawyer's ‘Hot 100’
lawyers list, the 'Corporate/M&A: High-end
capability' section of Chambers UK and the 'Equity
Capital Markets: UK capability' section of The Legal
500.

Malini Mukhopadhyay, Senior Securities
Counsel at Deliveroo and vice chair,
International Finance and Securities Committee
of the ABA's International Law section

Prior to joining Deliveroo in 2020, Malini was in
private practice at Proskauer Rose LLP, where she
represented issuers, underwriters, selling
shareholders and depositaries in connection with
equity offerings, including IPOs, follow-on offerings,
rights offerings and block trades. Malini also has
extensive experience in cross-border M&A and
liability management transactions and debt
offerings.

Marie Elena Angulo, Of Counsel in the Financial
Markets practice, Jones Day

Marie has more than 25 years of experience in
London, New York and Miami advising U.S. and
non-U.S. issuers and financial institutions in
connection with securities offerings, SEC reporting
requirements, and corporate governance matters.
She has worked on capital raisings in the United
States, as well as in Africa, Australia, Europe, Hong
Kong, and Latin America. Her pro bono work has
included representing unaccompanied children and
women from Central America in their asylum
application process. She is a member of the
Executive Committee of Human Rights Watch,
Miami. And serves as senior advisor to the
International Finance & Securities Committee of the
American Bar Association’s International Law
Section. She sits on the board of Oolite Arts, one of
South Florida’s largest support organization for the
visual arts.

Mark Bicknell, managing director and EMEA
Associate General Counsel, Bank of America

Mark Bicknell is based in London, providing legal,
regulatory, execution and general counsel to the
investment banking, corporate finance, corporate
broking and capital markets teams across the
EMEA region, and running regulatory change
projects for the Firm in the UK, the EEA, MENA and
South Africa. Mark manages the EMEA ECM
counsel team and manages teams and output for
the Firm on industry association and market-wide
projects.
Before moving to BofA, Mark was at Merrill Lynch
which he joined in 2004 from Linklaters where he
had been an English corporate and capital markets
lawyer and managing associate in Linklaters’
London and Singapore offices.
Mark was awarded an MA in Modern and Medieval
Languages from the University of Cambridge; and
honours in the Law Society’s Common Professional
Law Exams and Finals at the College of Law, York.

Peter Castellon, partner, Proskauer and
conference chair

Peter represents issuers, underwriters and selling
shareholders in connection with offerings of
securities, including IPOs, follow-on and
secondary offerings, block trades, rights offerings
and offerings of convertible and exchangeable
bonds.

Peter is active in bar association activities and has
served as an officer of several committees,
including the IBA Capital Markets Forum, the
International Securities Matters Subcommittee of
the ABA Committee on the Federal Regulation of
Securities and the ABA International Securities &
Capital Markets Committee.

Robbie Andrade, Director and Head of Listings,
International Stock Exchange

Robbie Andrade has a BA Honours Degree in
European Law from the University of Lancaster and
joined the Exchange in April 2005.
In his role at the Exchange, Robbie is a Director of
TISEA and he has responsibility for the day to day
running of the Listings Department, providing
assistance to the Members of the Exchange and
other associated parties as well as reviewing and
assisting in the analysis and work of his team.
Born in Guernsey and a naturalised citizen of
Portugal, Robbie is bilingual and holds a number of
management and leadership qualifications from the
Chartered Management Institute (CMI). He is a full
member of CMI.

Sally Gilding,
Senior Consultant & Non-Executive Director,
Ocorian

Sally Gilding joined Ocorian in May 2018 as Senior
Consultant and Non-Executive Director tasked with
further expanding its growing Corporate Services
offer with the development and launch of its new
Corporate Trust business. She has over 30 years'
experience in the legal and banking industries.
Sally started her professional career at The Law
Commission, a statutory independent body created
by the Law Commission Act in 1965 to keep
statutes and application of English law under
review. From there, she moved to Clifford Chance,
covering corporate finance and capital markets,
before entering the banking industry.
Sally progressed into a range of regional leadership
roles within Corporate Trust and Agency
businesses, ultimately taking on a global role
responsible for Corporate Services at Deutsche
Bank.
In 2018, Sally was appointed to The Association of
Corporate Trustees (TACT) as a Council Member
of the Board of Directors. She has a BA from the
Australian National University, ACT and an LLB
from the University of London.

Sebastian R. Sperber, attorney, Cleary Gottlieb
Steen & Hamilton LLP

Sebastian R. Sperber focuses his practice on
international capital markets transactions and
merger and acquisition transactions. He regularly
counsels companies on compliance with U.S.
securities law requirements and related corporate
governance matters. He has authored numerous
publications on U.S. securities law. He joined the
New York office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen &
Hamilton LLP in 1988 and became a partner in
1997. Since 1990, except for two stints in Hong
Kong, he has been resident in the firm’s London
office.
Simone Bono, partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus
Deringer

Simone is a partner in Freshfields' leveraged
finance practice. She has extensive experience
representing private equity sponsors, companies
and underwriters in high-yield bond offerings,
leveraged buy-outs, debt restructurings, initial
public offerings and other corporate finance
transactions. Before joining the firm in 2011,
Simone practised in New York for 10 years
focusing on high-yield and other corporate finance
transactions. Simone is the co-head of Freshfields'
Switzerland country group.
Simone is fluent in English, German, French and
Spanish.

Sophie Vuarlot-Dignac, Head of ESMA’s Legal
and Enforcement Department

Sophie Vuarlot-Dignac joined the European
Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) as Head of
Unit for Legal, Cooperation and Convergence
matters in October 2013. Since January 2020 she
became responsible for ESMA’s Legal and
Enforcement Department in charge of internal legal
advice, breach of Union law investigations and
enforcement proceedings. Sophie also coordinates
ESMA’s Ethics and Data Protection activities.

Sophie has a 20-year long experience as a national
and European financial regulator. Prior to joining
ESMA, Sophie held a number of senior posts at the
French Prudential Supervisory and Resolution
Authority (ACPR), including Head of legal and
cooperation Unit or Head of the International Affairs

Banking Division. She also worked for the
Committee of European Banking Supervisors
(predecessor of the European Banking Authority –
EBA) in London from 2007 to 2009, where she was
in particular in charge of liquidity risk management
and supervisory convergence. She began her career
at the Banque de France in 1998, where she
performed on-site inspections, following graduation
from Sciences Po (Paris).

Srinivas S, CEO, Scribestar

Sri joined as Chief Architect and now manages the
technology and commercial roadmap for
ScribeStar. A qualified engineer with an MBA in
Innovation & Strategy, he has led product
innovation and engineering of commercially viable
products in early/growth stage fintech and digital
media businesses. His expertise includes building
strong engineering teams, innovating minimum
viable products, delivering them and evaluation of
technology businesses for strategic acquisitions
and partnerships. He previously worked in
organisations like Brit Insurance, BBC Worldwide
and Unisys where he led the development of
various technology products. He has an in-depth
understanding of the capital market structures and
of the technology landscape across legal and
financial services.